Copy photographs depicting buildings, farms, Dakota Indians, and mission school activities in and around the St. Francis Mission on the Rosebud Reservation. The majority of the photographs were made by Eugene Buechel, a Jesuit who served at St. Francis and Holy Rosary missions. The collection also includes some photographs by Fr. Salvatore Gentile ...

Copies of photographs mostly depicting Sun Dances on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations. They depict Oglala, Dakota, and other Siouan Indians, encampments, wagons, tipis, and a powwow.

Photographs mostly made by William S. Soule and George E. Trager, and probably acquired by John Rutter Brooke while stationed with the US Army at Camp Supply (circa 1873) and the Department of the Platte (1888-1895). Photographs by William S. Soule document life at Camp Supply, depicting Arapaho people (including Chief Powder Face), tipis and enca...

This collection contains photographs was shot circa 1887-1899 by Jesse Hasting Bratley and Horace G. Jennerson while they served as teachers on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations.

This collection contains 11 glass plate negatives photographed by Matilda Inez Murphy Sprinkel, circa 1904-1910. Sprinkel and her husband Frederick Kemper Sprinkel were trading post operators and possibly Indian Agents on the Rosebud Reservation when she shot these photographs. It is possible that some of the photographs may have been shot by Frede...

The Septima Koehler collection includes photographic prints, correspondence and student papers that document Septima's work as a mission teacher for the Episcopal Church in South Dakota from around 1895 to 1905. Koehler taught Sicangu Lakota students at St. Mary's Mission School on the Rosebud Reservation and Hunkpapa Lakota students at St. Elizatbeth's Mission School on the Standing Rock Reservation.

Glass plate negative depicting an outdoor portrait of Charging Elk and Broken Leg [Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux)]standing outside a building. One holds a rifle and the other is wearing what appears to be an Indian Police badge. Etched into the emulsion of the photograph is, "F.K. Sprinkel. Rosebud S.D. 1908." This photograph was shot by Frederick Ke...

The St. Mary's Mission school was opened in 1885 by the Episcopal Church, under the direction of Reverend W.J. Cleveland. It was originally built as a boarding school to accommodate between 50 and 60 Lakota students from the Rosebud Reservation and was located 12 miles northeast of the Rosebud Agency. The boarding school housed both boys and girls....

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View overlooking a group portrait taken in the Badlands on the Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota. The original glass plate negative has two handwritten notes by Mary Jennerson. The first is painted on the glass plate and reads, "In the Badlands at the foot of Cedar Butte, Rosebud, S.D. May 30, '05." The note is on a piece of paper taped to the neg...